Every home should have a poker set: one never knows when the deck needs to be broken out, the glasses need to be filled, and friends need to kick back and play some cards, maybe a little hold’em. But most chip sets are one variation of Vegas or another. Functional, but hardly hip.
However, this new poker chip set from Swedish company Ståhl is certainly unique, and features chips crafted from a massive meteorite that fell in northern Sweden about 800,000 years ago.
The out-of-this-world set comes with 120 chips, five dice, and two sets of high-end playing cards, all housed in a stunning Swedish calf-skin leather briefcase that boasts an interior trimmed with reindeer calf suede.
Every chip in the Ståhl set is made from the ultra-rare meteor material, but they also are slathered with 18k white gold and then encrusted with precious stones such as diamonds, Burmese rubies, and Sri Lankan sapphires. Depending on the stakes, the chips could be worth more than their arbitrary value.
An added, earthly note: the dice are crafted from Siberian wooly mammoth ivory. Not so out of this world, but definitely out of this eon.
Christie’s has valued the Ståhl meteorite set at $150,000, making it the most expensive set in the world.